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[UK] J. McClure Snake 34: Aikona, these are very simple people.
at aikona!, excl.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 45: Tell me who doesn’t wear his best casuals at the weekend? On Saturday arvie, or Sunday?
at arvie, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 40: Good, hard stuff. News ed said it was a ball-gripper of a story.
at ball-gripper (n.) under balls, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 15: It hardly seems likely that your old battleship [i.e. mother] would approve.
at battleship, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 36: I bet you’ll never guess where the Big White Chief is tonight!
at big white chief (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 177: Aikona, he couldn’t have had time to grab even the small change [...] before the coolie looked out of the kitchen.
at coolie, n.1
[UK] J. McClure Snake (1981) 83: Good God, at the rate we’re going, I’m likely to find myself working with Jungle Jim alongside of me! .. Jungle Jim? [...] O, my mistake! Jim Fish — that’s it, isn’t it?
at jim fish, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 117: I am worried to find you in this cold, dirty place with dog kak and frikkies on the floor.
at frikkie, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 26: Their values, so called, are all up to kak!
at up to kak (adj.) under kak, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 35: Ach, come on Kip – what’s got your Tampax in a twist?
at get one’s knickers in a twist (v.) under knickers, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 117: Seems like you’ve been on a lekker trip also, hey Rex?
at lekker, adj.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 38: ‘Your mother’s arse!’ flared Zondi in Zulu.
at your mother’s cunt! (excl.) under your mother!, excl.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 82: Gilbert Littlemore turned out to be one of those ex-Kenya types who kept calling coons ‘Sambo’ and ‘nig-nog’.
at nig-nog, n.2
[UK] J. McClure Snake 15: I was thinking about you wanting to gawk at Clint having his num-nums.
at num-nums, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 275: He’ll also do his nut!
at do one’s nut (v.) under nut, n.1
[UK] J. McClure Snake 40: Don’t think I didn’t tear him off a bloody strip! I did.
at tear off a strip (v.) under tear off, v.2
[UK] J. McClure Snake 155: ‘This kiddie mixes two things, you see, this pash for his mum and this fear his dad will cut off his – y’know.’ ‘Tondo?’ ‘Hell, the words Mickey teaches you!’.
at pash, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 84: At least they can’t be so poop-scared of him!
at poep-scared, adj.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 169: A swanky puss like Shirl.
at puss, n.1
[UK] J. McClure Snake 57: ‘Work to be done,’ the foreman said [...] ‘Come on you good-for-nothing ntombi shaggers, get up those ladders.’.
at shagger, n.1
[UK] J. McClure Snake 84: One of these skabengas could hide in the grass. [Ibid.] 128: ‘Last I know of him, he was working at the brickworks.’ ‘That skebengas’ paradise! But that means he’s pretty washed up then, in with the hard-case assaults and the rest.’ [Ibid.] 163: He was a real skabenga when he was small that one.
at skabenga, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 117: It was the Coloured pusher Rex du Pluui, already with the staggers at that hour, and holding up an empty bottle.
at staggers, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 30: ‘Oh, shhh-sugar,’ he said.
at sugar, n.2
[UK] J. McClure Snake 155: ‘This kiddie mixes two things, you see, this pash for his mum and this fear his dad will cut off his – y’know.’ ‘Tondo?’ ‘Hell, the words Mickey teaches you!’.
at tondo, n.
[UK] J. McClure Snake 172: The old wog girls who used to stand over behind the fence.
at wog, adj.
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